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Marlowe's Empery : expanding his critical contexts
- Title
- Marlowe's Empery : expanding his critical contexts / edited by Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2002.
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- Description
- 210 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This collection seeks to expand the critical perspectives of Marlowe scholarship by bringing together essays that examine diverse aspects of Marlowe's artistry, while simultaneously embedding his poems and plays within their theatrical, cultural, and social milieux. The essays in the first section of the collection adopt theater history and performance theory to position Marlowe's plays within the theatrical context of both his day and our own. Although numerous admirable studies have probed every facet of performance in Shakespeare's plays, the theatricality of Marlowe's plays, as well as their influence on the development of the English drama, has been largely ignored. The second section of this collection shifts from the theatrical to the cultural sphere of Marlowe's poems and plays. Few scholars would deny that Marlowe was a creator and subverter of genre par excellence, but, particularly in the past decade, very little scholarship has addressed this aspect of his genius. The essays in the third section of this collection place Marlowe's plays within their social and historical context. However, although employing a critical methodology that has become increasingly popular during the past decade, the essays in this section also seek to discover new relationships between Marlowe's plays and their social environment."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-201) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Marlowe's empery, expanding his critical contexts / Robert A. Logan -- Marlowe reruns: repertorial commerce and Marlowe's plays in revival / Roslyn L. Knutson -- Staging the A-and-B-texts of Doctor Faustus / David Bevington -- Tamburlaine the Great in performance / David Fuller -- Marlowe's Hero and Leander shows Shakespeare, in Venus and Adonis, how to write an Ovidian verse Epyllion / Maurice Charney -- Hysterics, high camp, and Dido Queene of Carthage / Rick Bowers -- Marlowe's interrogative drama: Dido, Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II / Sara Munson Deats -- "Forsake thy king and do but join with me": Marlowe and treason / Karen Cunningham -- "I know she is a courtesan by her attire": clothing and identity in The Jew of Malta / Randall Nakayama -- Tampering with the records: engendering the political community and Marlowe's appropriation of the past in Edward II / Georgia E. Brown.
- ISBN
- 087413787X
- 9780874137873
- LCCN
- 2002018092
- OCLC
- ocm49403701
- 49403701
- SCSB-14673770
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library